album: Golden
release date: 2001
tags: trip-hop, post-rock
desert fog
1. Tsunami Tears / 2. Asylum / 3. Soil / 4. Hold / 5. Opt / 6. Embrace / 7. Lastexit / 8. The Minutes That Passed / 9. P.M.W. / 10. Requiem/Caras Caladon
Golden is a strange album. "Trip-hop" and "post-rock" are both tag stretches - there's hardly any way to define this. Melancholic female vocals and steady drumming - that seems trip-hop. But we have a real drummer instead of the usual loops or drum machines, and there's also a prominent but subtle guitarist. Post-rock? Maybe, but doesn't really sound like any iconic post-rock band. All I could do is define it by feelings - Golden is an incredibly sad, low-key album. As somebody put it, this makes Portishead look like bubblegum pop. Not that much, really, since in the meantime Third was released - 11 years after this album was released and the band disappeared (like most appreciated obscure trip-hop bands, who like to vanish after the debut album or even before it), this album sounds as convincing as ever, if not even more. Sheer beauty that is bound to become the subject of a cult sooner or later.
Could you reupload the album please? The link doesnt work
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